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...retiring board of the Brown "Daily Herald" last week moved the publishing date of its annual April Fool's edition to Jan. 15 and announced that President Henry Wriston will replace Brown University's fraternity system with a house plan similar to Harvard...
...Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis. A Yale Ph.D. and authority on Alexander Pope, Knight joined the Yale faculty in 1946, rose to become assistant professor of English. With his new appointment, he can expect to go far in the academic world. Among Lawrence faculty men who have: Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University, Victor Butterfield, president of Wesleyan University, John S. Millis, president of Western Reserve -and Pusey, now president of Harvard...
...faculty. Brown offers as many scholarships as Harvard, but can afford to give only about 60 percent as much to each applicant. Time and again, one of the other Ivy Colleges steals away a prospective top student by offering him considerably more than Brown could. In a typical case Wriston contacted a particularly brilliant student whom he wanted to get into Brown's freshman class this year. He offered the high school senior $700. But the student went to Harvard under the blessing of a $1500 grant. Still, Brown, like Harvard, this year has one of the best freshman classes...
...addition, Wriston's insistence upon strict academic standards means that a correspondingly higher percentage of students flunk out every year. Of the present senior class at Brown only 365 remain from an original freshman group of over 600. This sharp drop is a public warning that Brown expects its students to keep their averages up. It also suggests that Wriston may be overdoing his quest for the top. He may be asking for more than his students are intellectually capable of producing...
...however, 190 years have not yet produced an intellectual product consistently challenging the Ivy's best. Under Wriston's prodding, the Brown man may someday be known as a scholar, but today he is known for nothing specific. Until that hoped-for day of prestige descends up Providence's College Hill Brown will be known as the Ivy's poor relation.PRESIDENT HENRY M. WRISTON, former Lawrence College President, now in his 17th year at Brown developed the "IC" courses and new "Quadrangle...